The Fifth United Nations Survey, covering the years
1990-1994, was designed to collect data on the incidence of reported
crime and the operation of criminal justice systems with a view to
improving the dissemination of that information globally. To that end,
the survey facilitates an overview of trends and interrelationships
among various parts of the criminal justice system to promote informed
decision-making in its administration, nationally and
crossnationally. Variables describe combined pol... (more info)

The Fifth United Nations Survey, covering the years
1990-1994, was designed to collect data on the incidence of reported
crime and the operation of criminal justice systems with a view to
improving the dissemination of that information globally. To that end,
the survey facilitates an overview of trends and interrelationships
among various parts of the criminal justice system to promote informed
decision-making in its administration, nationally and
crossnationally. Variables describe combined police and prosecution
expenditure by year and by country, number of police personnel by
gender, total number of homicides by country and by city, number of
assaults, rapes, robberies, thefts, burglaries, frauds, and
embezzlements, amount of drug crime, number of people formally charged
with crime, age of suspects, number and gender of prosecutors, number
of individuals prosecuted and the types of crimes prosecuted, gender
and age of individuals prosecuted, types of courts, number of
individuals convicted and acquitted, numbers sentenced to capital
punishment and various other punishments, number of convictions on
various charges, number of individuals sentenced and in detention,
number of prisoners, sentence lengths, and prison demographics.

The Fifth Survey builds upon the four prior United
Nations Crime Surveys. See also UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS:
FIRST SURVEY, 1970-1975 AND SECOND SURVEY 1975-1980 (ICPSR 9571),
UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS: FOURTH SURVEY, 1986-1990 (ICPSR
6945), and UNITED NATIONS WORLD SURVEYS OF CRIME TRENDS AND CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEMS, 1970-1994: RESTRUCTURED FIVE-WAVE DATA (ICPSR 2513).

Methodology

Sample:
The Fifth Survey was distributed to all member states of
the United Nations.

Data Source:

questionnaires filled out by representatives of member
states at the United Nations Office in Vienna

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2003-04-25

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB3686.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.